By Peter Adebi, MSA, SPHR

Many people avoid conflict because they do not understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy conflict. Some workers are so concerned about harming their relationships and potentially their careers that they would endure untold hardship or keep their opinions to themselves even when they know the organization is heading down the wrong path. Others refrain from conflict due to concern about the “maturity” level of the opposing party. They fear any conflict might degenerate into an unhealthy confrontation. What they might not understand is that the continued success of any organization depends on the willingness of its workers to participate in healthy conflict. There are significant benefits to healthy conflict, and to those we will now turn.

Excerpt from the Self-Directed Seminar titled "Managing Disruptive Key Employees"

Coaching helps you achieve greater self-awareness. Coaching is an empowering, eye-opening one-on-one relationship between a coach and a coachee. Using one of several proven techniques such as behavioral interviewing, experiential exercises, 360-degree feedback, personality diagnostic tools and other self-awareness tools and activities, a coach is able to collect information that helps a coachee achieve greater self-awareness and interpersonal awareness. Such information allows coachees to test their reality against how they are perceived by others including their coach. It allows them to uncover hidden talent, build on strengths and work on improving opportunity areas or changing dysfunctional behaviors.

Excerpt from seminar titled “A Step by Step Guide to Becoming an Effective Coach”

By Peter Adebi

 Developed by Graham Alexander and popularized by John Whitmore, the GROW model is the most widely used model of coaching. This model is recommended because it is straightforward and easy to understand and implement.

 The acronym GROW stands for Goal, Reality, Options, and Will. Each of the letters stands for an important phase in the coaching process.

By Peter Adebi, MSA, SPHR
Leadership Coach

How often do we meet people who make us wonder why they are not doing so much more with their lives? Of course, the life is theirs to spend the way they please. But if they understood the vastness of their potential and discovered a clear path to tap into it, would they have made different decisions? Would you?

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